Surprise! Badly Written Banner Ads Yield Bad Results
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Surprise! Badly Written Banner Ads Yield Bad Results

25y Guest

Surprise! Badly Written Banner Ads Yield Bad Resul...

Banner bashing is hip. But are banner ads a flawed configuration, or is it the messaging that's flawed? Here are some simple yet effective suggestions...

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Spring Brings Another Increase in Online Spending
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Spring Brings Another Increase in Online Spending

25y Michael Pastore

Spring Brings Another Increase in Online Spending

Online shoppers welcomed in spring by increasing e-commerce sales to $4.3 billion in April, up from $3.5 billion in March, according to the NRF/Forres...

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For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time: Part 2
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For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time: Part 2

25y Kathy Henning

For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time: Par...

The secret of being a good writer is being a good rewriter. Revision is the name of the game. Because whether you're a student or a professor, a begin...

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U.S. Broadband Users Concentrated in Cities
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U.S. Broadband Users Concentrated in Cities

25y Michael Pastore

U.S. Broadband Users Concentrated in Cities

More than 30 percent of all broadband users in the United States live in the top five metropolitan areas, according to data from Nielsen//NetRatings. ...

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Forecasting the Turning Point
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Forecasting the Turning Point

25y Cliff Allen

Forecasting the Turning Point

Market forecasting is a little like playing the lottery: If you don't play, you can't win -- you can't predict the turning points of your revenue or e...

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Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway
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Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway

25y Michael Pastore

Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway

We've all heard the hiking disaster stories by now. So to avoid making headlines, here are some cool high-tech mapping and navigation tools to help yo...

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ROI Takes Center Stage
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ROI Takes Center Stage

25y Philip Say

ROI Takes Center Stage

These are pretty tough times, especially for those attempting to make IT investment decisions. Luckily, Philip has a clear plan of action, regardless ...

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Time to Outsource?
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Time to Outsource?

25y Kim MacPherson

Time to Outsource?

"Survivor": It's the word of the day in this age of reduced budgets and staffing cuts. So sometimes your team doesn't have the resources it needs for ...

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Email Marketing for Media Planners: Finding the Lists
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Email Marketing for Media Planners: Finding the Lists

25y Tig Tillinghast

Email Marketing for Media Planners: Finding the Li...

Media buyers conducting email marketing campaigns need to ask lots of questions about email lists. Tig tells you where to start and how to find the ri...

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Performance Manifesto
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Performance Manifesto

25y Joel Gehman

Performance Manifesto

The performance advertising age has only just begun. And if you're a classically trained marketer having a hard time adjusting to the dynamics, Joel's...

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Unemployment-line.com
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Unemployment-line.com

25y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Unemployment-line.com

It was a great party while it lasted. Now get over your hangover, take a reality check, lower your expectations, be flexible, and go for the cash. Rea...

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How to Reach Your Competitors' Customers Online
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How to Reach Your Competitors' Customers Online

25y Lyndon Cerejo

How to Reach Your Competitors' Customers Online

Remember that time on "Sabrina: The Teenage Witch" (stay with me here!) when Aunt Hilda realized her regular coffeehouse customers were frequenting th...

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B2B Plays Lack Understanding of Marketing
Marketing

B2B Plays Lack Understanding of Marketing

25y Michael Pastore

B2B Plays Lack Understanding of Marketing

Many online B2C operations came under fire and then went under, period, for extravagant spending on marketing. But while B2C spending was overblown an...

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Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 4
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Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 4

25y Gerry McGovern

Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 4

It's important to follow Web conventions when designing your site so people won't be confused. Here is a selection of the navigation and classificatio...

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XML Adoption Gaining Speed
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XML Adoption Gaining Speed

25y Michael Pastore

XML Adoption Gaining Speed

The use of XML, a language designed especially for Web documents, is on the upswing, nearly doubling in the last six months, according to research by ...

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How the Recession Saved My Career
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How the Recession Saved My Career

25y David McKnight

How the Recession Saved My Career

A Web designer looks back at sites designed for high-tech clients, lamenting excesses of the IPO craze. Now that it's over, the persistent programmers...

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Easy Linkin'
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Easy Linkin'

25y Eric Ward

Easy Linkin'

Do you have a link-instructions page? Well, according to Eric, it may be a simple and effective way to encourage links. Read More...

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Email Preferences: Let Your Customers Decide
Email

Email Preferences: Let Your Customers Decide

25y Tom Hespos

Email Preferences: Let Your Customers Decide

Despite research on frequency preferences for permission- based email, marketers should ask customers directly how often they want to receive content ...

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Avoiding the Search Gap
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Avoiding the Search Gap

25y Danny Sullivan

Avoiding the Search Gap

Are you a victim of the search gap? According to Danny, you could easily become one if you haven't been considering what happens to your visitors afte...

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E-Newsletters: A Smart Choice Now
Email

E-Newsletters: A Smart Choice Now

25y Debbie Weil

E-Newsletters: A Smart Choice Now

One of the best ways to spend your email marketing dollars right now is to place a sponsorship text ad in a targeted e-newsletter. Here’s how to get t...

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Reaching Customers on Their Turf
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Reaching Customers on Their Turf

25y Sean Carton

Reaching Customers on Their Turf

Perhaps the biggest fallacy about the Web has been that it can do everything. It can't. If you want to successfully market your company, you need to b...

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Promote Your Business With a Seminar Series
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Promote Your Business With a Seminar Series

25y Peter Kaufman

Promote Your Business With a Seminar Series

Here's an innovative marketing technique for you: Put together a seminar series based on your company's resources and talents. It's an effective way t...

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Valuable Consumers Demand Personalization
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Valuable Consumers Demand Personalization

25y Michael Pastore

Valuable Consumers Demand Personalization

Online purchasers are more likely to spend at Web sites offering personalization, according to survey by Cyber Dialogue, but research by Cahners In-St...

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Listen to Your Users, Not the Hype
Marketing

Listen to Your Users, Not the Hype

25y Blake Rohrbacher

Listen to Your Users, Not the Hype

It's easy to get caught up in the hype. If you're a new company in a new industry in a new medium, the hype can seem your justification for being. But...

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Online Advertising's Rich Future
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Online Advertising's Rich Future

25y Jeffrey Graham

Online Advertising's Rich Future

Yahoo! Flying fowl, thundering trucks, wobbling windows... Wondrous wonder of wonders, what's with the Web? Read More...

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Another Hurdle: Ad-Blocking Software
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Another Hurdle: Ad-Blocking Software

25y Jeremy Lockhorn

Another Hurdle: Ad-Blocking Software

As Web advertising becomes more intrusive with larger ads, pop-ups, DHTML executions, and expandable ads, many users resort to ad-blocking software. W...

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Puzzle Me This: Connecting Women to One Another, Part 1
Marketing

Puzzle Me This: Connecting Women to One Another, Part 1

25y Andrea Learned

Puzzle Me This: Connecting Women to One Another, P...

We know that one of the keys to marketing to women is connecting them to one another -- like putting together a 1,000-piece puzzle. It may seem imposs...

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